The Basiliscoe Mercury 257

The Basiliscoe Mercury 257


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Autumn has finally arrived; the nights are drawing in and it is time to sit by the fire and read the latest Bazzy. Viking swords, cave art, U-boats and two exhibitions on alchemy. Not to mention various pieces on the 950thanniversary of the Battle of Hastings.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Flint workshop found in Bulgaria

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...ias-kamenovo-employed-manufactory-production/


Grave of GreekBronze Age warrior

http://popular-archaeology.com/issu...unveil-new-findings-from-greek-warrior-s-tomb


Ancient weapons emerge from Norwegian glaciers

http://sciencenordic.com/viking-arrowheads-emerge-melting-norwegian-glaciers


Update on the Viking sword in Icelandic glacier story - bones found close by….

http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/10/02/viking-sword-owner-found


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Ancient cave art found in north Spain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37654544


Surveying Australia’s indigenous rock art

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...f-indigenous-rock-art-revealed-by-researchers


On the frontlines


Article on the Medieval Soldier website

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-database-reveals-ancestor-veterans-years.html


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Castles and the Norman Conquest

http://castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2016/10/14/1066-castles-and-the-norman-conquest/

http://www.historyextra.com/article...es-william-the-conqueror-norman-conquest-1066


Scottish castles

http://www.scotsman.com/news/seven-of-scotland-s-oddest-castles-1-426http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bo...list.aspx?PageID=238&NID=104620&NewsCatID=375


Fishguard Fort

https://warisboring.com/when-an-ame...ur-coast-build-a-fort-c24a5d14a87b#.ctex5bpao


Grave stories


Has the body of missing Swedish count Königsmarckbeen found? Intriguing!

http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-could-a-300-year-old-murder-mystery-finally-be-solvhttp://motherboard.vice.com/read/dn...00-year-old-case-of-royal-adultery-and-murder


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Walker & Co 32P Blomefield in Canada

http://www.theobserver.ca/2016/10/17/sarnias-beloved-cannon-had-its-start-in-britain


US Civil War ammo uncovered by storm Matthew

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/0...on-south-carolina-beach-in-matthews-wake.html


And what they did with it

http://www.livescience.com/56458-hurricane-matthew-uncovers-civil-war-cannonballs.html


Piece about the Gonzales cannon

http://buzzworthy.blog.austin360.co...-a-small-cannon-fires-a-big-shot-in-gonzales/


Café Basiliscoe


Bison barbeque!

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local...ancient-feast-at-head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump


Into the 20th century


Austria decides on the fate of the Hitler birthplace

http://artdaily.com/news/90922/Austria-to-tear-down-Hitler-birth-house#.WAXqejHrt9A


A Cold War memento

http://www.concordmonitor.com/Thehttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ex...rden.aspx?pageID=238&nid=104434&NewsCatID=341


Bit more on the state of Topkapi Palace

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/to...tage.aspx?PageID=238&NID=104509&NewsCatID=375


Interesting feature on Tradition, art blend in Morocco 'tbourida' cavalry charges

http://artdaily.com/news/90857/Tradition--art-blend-in-Morocco--tbourida--cavalry-charges#.Whttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Where-encroachers-hold-the-fort-as-conservation-takes-a-backhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/15/battle-of-hastings-re-enacted-950th-anniversary

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...le-of-hastings-reenactors-at-home-in-pictures


Nautical news


Medieval Venetian ship found in the Black Sea?

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2016/10/01/pre-columbian-mediterranean-round-shihttp://blackseamap.com/


New work on the Vasa

http://wvtf.org/post/new-clues-emerge-centuries-old-swedish-shipwreck#stream/0


Eight wrecks found off Taiwan from the Dutch colonial period

http://news.thewildeast.net/dutch-colonial-era-ships-found-in-tainan/


New claims on the Whydah

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2016/10/09/explorer-says-found-pirates-treasure/91815050/


Update on the search for HMS Endeavour

http://www.smh.com.au/national/were...s-ship-the-hmb-endeavour-20160927-grph8t.html


Finds from slaveship Sao Jose Paquete d’ Africa, sank 1794, on display

http://www.gwhatchet.com/2016/10/10/shipwreck-relics-recovered-by-professor-displayed-in-new-museum/


Article about a visit to HMS Trincomalee

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/161009/plus/the-voyage-of-hms-trincomalee-through-the-ages-211456.html


Wreck of German U-boat UB-85 sunk in 1918found off coast of Stranraer?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-37691283



Museum news and exhibitions


New museums


RAF museum gets funding for future development

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/...cure-national-lottery-investment-for-our-raf/


Museum musings


What nations choose to remember

https://www.theguardian.com/culture...history-dangerous-says-former-museum-director


V&A and photography

http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/comment/light-or-shadow-for-photography-at-the-v-a/


Conservation corner


Recreatingan Ulfbreht sword

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/seeing-a-medieval-viking-ulfbreht-sword-get-made-today-1787http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/doubts-grow-over-old-masters-sold-by-giulano-ruffini/


France's Apocalypse Tapestry to be restored to medieval glory

http://artdaily.com/news/90652/Fran...to-be-restored-to-medieval-glory#.V_deT-Trt9A


Objects


National Army Museum acquire robes and dagger of Lawrence of Arabia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-robes-of-lawrence-of-arabia-saved-for-nation


Exhibitions


Caravaggio‘s circle at London

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/05/artemisia-gentileshi-painter-beyond-caravaggio

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beyond-caravaggio


Indian courts in Paris

http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/...aharadjahs-pages-indiennes-du-musee-guimet/1/

http://www.guimet.fr/en/home/116-an...the-musee-national-des-arts-asiatiques-guimet


Flemish landscapes in Dresden

http://artdaily.com/news/90548/Flem...iew-at-Kunsthalle-im-Lipsiusbau-#.V_IOrOTrt9A

http://www.skd.museum/de/sonderausstellungen/das-paradies-auf-erden/index.html


Alchemy in Halle

http://www.lda-lsa.de/landesmuseum_...en/alchemie_die_suche_nach_dem_weltgeheimnis/


18th century marine painting at Yale

http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/spreading-canvas-eighteenth-century-british-marine-painting


Valentin de Boulogne in NY

http://artdaily.com/news/90709/Metr...-Caravaggio-Valentin-de-Boulogne#.V_tZzeTrt9A


Art and war in modern Japan in Saint Louis

http://artdaily.com/news/90848/-Conflicts-of-Interest--explores-relationship-between-art-and-war-in-modehttp://www.slam.org/exhibitions/CONFLICTS.php


Alchemy in LA

http://patch.com/california/pacificpalisades/getty-research-institute-examines-art-alchemy

http://artdaily.com/news/90747/Exhhttp://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/alchemy/



Books


Laura Crombie: Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders, 1300-1500

https://boydellandbrewer.com/bb-medieval-herald-archery-and-crossbow


Nicholas A. Gribit: Henry of Lancaster's Expedition to Aquitaine, 1345-1346; Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War

https://boydellandbrewer.com/bb-medieval-herald-henry-of-lancaster


Translated by Jeffrey L. Forgeng: The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal

https://boydellandbrewer.com/bb-medieval-herald-book-of-horsemanship


Robert F. Smith: Manufacturing Independence; Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution

http://www.westholmepublishing.com/manufacturing_independence.php


Bill Harriman: The Mosin-Nagant Rifle

https://ospreypublishing.com/the-mosin-nagant-rifle


144 Civil and military aircraft.

http://www.klm-mra.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...tive Collection of Ancient Armour ...&f=false


William Woolnoth, Edward William Brayley, William Tombleson: A series of views of the most interesting remains of ancient castles of England and Wales

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ing remains of ancient castles of ...&f=false



Popular culture


New serial on Guy Fawkes in the pipeline?

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/kit-harington-gunpowder-guy-fawkes-bbc-robert-catesby


New documentary on Cai Guo Qiang

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cai-guo-qiang-sky-ladder-netflix-652061

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-rupert-trump-sky-ladder-art-of-cai-guo-qiang


1066 books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/b...brexit-the-battle-of-hastings-950-year-legacy

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/10...uerors-subjugation-of-england-by-teresa-cole/



Events


27 - 29 October October 27 - 29Museums at Night

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art...st-events-during-the-Museums-at-Night-weekend


Conferences


24 - 25 November Oxford

Hakluyt and the Renaissance discovery of the World

http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-an...-events?_ga=1.249074503.1731705185.1476800162


Sales Fairs and auctions


24 October – 5 November Hermann Historica, Munich

Annual Autumn Auction 2016

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/newauction.html



Websites and downloads


Les Invalides blog

http://www.musee-armee.fr/collections/blog-des-collections.html


Arms and Armor Dept blog from the Met

http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/ruminations/2016/talismans-in-islamic-arms-and-armor


Subchaser Archives & Notes

http://subchaser.org/home

http://subchaser.org/newsletter


1066 etc: 1066, Templars and death in Damascus

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/10/16/kingship-in-death-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/10...artyrdom-in-the-order-of-the-knights-templar/

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/10...ition-among-medieval-muslim-religious-elites/


Finally


This fortnight I followed 1066 as it happened:

https://twitter.com/Medievalists

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –19 October 2016


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